Josiah Riley was one of the Connecticut Susquehanna Company settlers, who purchased the Wyoming valley with a contentious deed.[1],[2],[3]
Death
Death:
Date: Possibly 1753
Place: Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut
Note
Note: 1. Little is known of the details of the life or death of Josiah Riley. However, a late 2007 discovery in the publication "The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut", published by the State of Connecticut in 1877 adds this information which may be relevant.
In October of 1753, Isaac Goff and Rebecca Goff of Simsbury asked the General Assembly to allow them to sell some of the real estate of the late Josiah Riley, stating that Riley's "moveable estate" was insufficient to cover his debt to them of some 261 pounds. This sale was allowed by the Assembly.
While we have had no clear record of Josiah's death date or place, his widow, Rebecca, died in the town of Simsbury in 1760, adding weight to the notion that the 1753 petition may apply to this Josiah Riley.
2. Later research indicates the Rebecca Goff listed in the petition mentioned above was, in fact, the former Rebecca Riley. Further research will be needed to determine whether her marriage to Goff came after a divorce from Riley, or after Riley's death.
↑ Boyd, J.P. and Taylor, R.J. The Susquehannah Company Papers (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1962). May be borrowed through the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/susquehannahcomp0001susq/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22Andrew+Robee%22. Notes that "The memorial of John Humphry, Samuel Griswold, Hezekiah Phelps, Andrew Robee, Haynes Woodbridge, Jonathan Case, Josiah Ryley, Henry Moulton, David Welch, and others" during the May 1750 Connecticut General Assembly in Hartford asserted that the was a tract of land lying within the Colony of Connecticut and requested the grant of a ten mile square area to patent. The memorial was not granted.
Acknowledgements
WikiTree profile Riley-787 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Brian and others.
This person was created through the import of Dickinson families b.ged on 20 January 2011.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
~0.39%Tim Colvig :
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal TIMaedc5152, Ancestry member timcolvig